MP Alen Simonyan from Yelk faction announced a decision to give up his parliamentary seat after Tuesday’s parliament session.

He has applied parliament Speaker Ara Babloyan to terminate his MP mandate, Simonyan said in a post on Facebook, adding he will return to the Yerevan Council of Elders.

Alen Simonyan replaced Nikol Pashinyan in the National Assembly after the latter assumed the office of Armenia's Prime Minister.